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title: npm-profile
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description: Change settings on your registry profile
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### Synopsis

```bash
npm profile enable-2fa [auth-only|auth-and-writes]
npm profile disable-2fa
npm profile get [<key>]
npm profile set <key> <value>
```

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

### Description

Change your profile information on the registry. Note that this command depends on the registry implementation, so third-party registries may not support this interface.

- `npm profile get [<property>]`: Display all of the properties of your profile, or one or more specific properties. It looks like:

```bash
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| name            | example                   |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| email           | me@example.com (verified) |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| two factor auth | auth-and-writes           |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| fullname        | Example User              |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| homepage        |                           |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| freenode        |                           |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| twitter         |                           |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| github          |                           |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| created         | 2015-02-26T01:38:35.892Z  |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
| updated         | 2017-10-02T21:29:45.922Z  |
+-----------------+---------------------------+
```

- `npm profile set <property> <value>`: Set the value of a profile property. You can set the following properties this way: email, fullname, homepage, freenode, twitter, github

- `npm profile set password`: Change your password. This is interactive, you'll be prompted for your current password and a new password. You'll also be prompted for an OTP if you have two-factor authentication enabled.

- `npm profile enable-2fa [auth-and-writes|auth-only]`: Enables two-factor authentication. Defaults to `auth-and-writes` mode. Modes are:
  - `auth-only`: Require an OTP when logging in or making changes to your account's authentication. The OTP will be required on both the website and the command line.
  - `auth-and-writes`: Requires an OTP at all the times `auth-only` does, and also requires one when publishing a module, setting the `latest` dist-tag, or changing access via `npm access` and `npm owner`.

- `npm profile disable-2fa`: Disables two-factor authentication.

### Details

Some of these commands may not be available on non npmjs.com registries.

### Configuration

#### `registry`

- Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
- Type: URL

The base URL of the npm registry.

#### `json`

- Default: false
- Type: Boolean

Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.

- In `npm pkg set` it enables parsing set values with JSON.parse() before saving them to your `package.json`.

Not supported by all npm commands.

#### `parseable`

- Default: false
- Type: Boolean

Output parseable results from commands that write to standard output. For `npm search`, this will be tab-separated table format.

#### `otp`

- Default: null
- Type: null or String

This is a one-time password from a two-factor authenticator. It's needed when publishing or changing package permissions with `npm access`.

If not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a one-time password, npm will prompt on the command line for one.

### See Also

- [npm adduser](/cli/v8/commands/npm-adduser)
- [npm registry](/cli/v8/using-npm/registry)
- [npm config](/cli/v8/commands/npm-config)
- [npmrc](/cli/v8/configuring-npm/npmrc)
- [npm owner](/cli/v8/commands/npm-owner)
- [npm whoami](/cli/v8/commands/npm-whoami)
- [npm token](/cli/v8/commands/npm-token)
